Two things to check out right away. Does the Adaptec card diagnostics
recognize the drive? You can enter the diagnostics by pressing control-A
during the boot process. Also to check are the cable connections. With
heat/cool cycling that a computer goes through, the connections at some
point can go bad. Unplugging the SCSI cable and plugging it back into a
device often will solve a connection problem.

If none of this helps, try to determine if the controller or drive is
causing the problem. A bad drive would require data extraction by a data
recovery company - an expensive proposition. From what you described,
however, I would expect that you can get the system running for at least
long enough to recover the data.

I had an older SCSI drive of mine go out that way recently. I nursed it back
temporarily, but then had to do a low-level format. It worked after that,
but I was not willing to give it my full trust. Since it was only a 1G size
(high when I got it, but low by today's standards), I put it out of service.

Good luck in your efforts.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
I have had a SCSI drive for over 4 years now and a few days ago, it simply
failed to be recognized by my adaptec scsi controller.  Just like that!!  I
had simply closed my computer like I usually do, and next day, when I opened
it, dead.

I hear the hard disk spinning, but then I don't hear the writing process
that I usually hear.  I then get the message "failed to read".
Since I had precious data on it, is there a way to move the data onto
another disk?

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